Future dates for blog posts using Live Writer

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8/29/2009 9:53:17 PM
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Marc Beacom Making Data-Driven Decisions Possible http://www.DawaBI.com

Future dates for blog posts using Live Writer

Just wondering if MP supports future dates for blog posts writen using Live Writer.  I've performed some tests and it doesn't appear to support it as the date on the post in MP gets set to the server datetime regardless of what I set in Live Writer.  I thought I'd post a question in case I was missing something.

Marc

p.s.  Thanks for the great work and adding in the Liver Writer support.  Much appreciated!

8/30/2009 6:13:03 AM
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Re: Future dates for blog posts using Live Writer

You are probably right. I'm not entirely sure if we are even capturing the date posted from Live Writer. I'll take a look today, if it looks easy to use a date passed in then I will make it use that. I always figured the future date is really just a way to have drafts for blog posts using the web UI, I figured with Live Writer the workflow would be to save drafts locally and publish when you are ready.

Best,

Joe

8/30/2009 7:00:55 AM
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Re: Future dates for blog posts using Live Writer

Hi Marc,

Having looked I see that I could easily use the date passed in but I am concerned this may not work well. We store dates as UTC and we adjust it to user local time in the web ui based on profile setting for timezone offset and if not authenticated based on preferred GMT offset in Web.config.

I "think" WLW passes in the date already converted to UTC and if that is correct it should work fine because we store dates that way already. If I'm wrong it could cause things to be published at the incorrect time.

What I will do is wrap a Web.config setting around it so if it does cause any problems using the passed in date it can be disabled easily in config to go back to the previous behavior of using the server current time. This will be in the next release.

Best,

Joe

8/30/2009 11:26:42 AM
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Marc Beacom Making Data-Driven Decisions Possible http://www.DawaBI.com

Re: Future dates for blog posts using Live Writer

Awesome.  Thanks for looking into this so quickly!

To address a question you posed in your first response regarding future dates and workflow.  My hope is to put future dates on blog posts so that they are not visible right away.  My intent is to have 6-10 posts scheduled out one week apart.  This will give me 6-10 weeks of posts out and I can continue to add beyond that.  This will give me a cushion for when I am on vacation or just too busy to blog, but the posts will continue to display to users on the schedule.

Anyways, thanks again for your great work.

Marc

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